By Victoria Denison | UK Operations Manager
It is coming up to one year since we expanded our Poultry Development Services programme beyond West Bengal to support some of the poorest marginalised communities in the neighbouring state of Odisha. As you can see, the programme is now in full swing!
Shanti started our training programme and received her first toolkit of ten chicks in May 2022. After three months, she was able to sell some of her fully grown chickens.
In these photos you can see how pleased she is to be selling her chickens and to have cash in her hand for the first time. She sold her first batch of chickens for 1,200 rupees (c. £12) and used the money to feed her family and invest in her growing enterprise. Shanti is representative of so many of the women we are working with in rural villages with Poultry Development Services. For them, raising chickens is like having an ATM in their own backyard!
You can meet more women like Shanti on our YouTube channel where we have posted some short videos called 'Take One Minute'. They are all filmed in one take by the Shivia team during our field visits - we hope you will take one minute to watch them.
Watch our 'Take One Minute' videos here
Thank you for helping us to empower women like Shani to earn a decent income with dignity.
Best wishes from,
The Team at Shivia
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